age vs majority
majority vs ageage and majority both are nouns.
age is a verb but majority is not a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| age | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| majority | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
majority is a hyponym of
age; that is, majority is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
age:
- age: a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises
- majority: the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs
Other hyponyms of age include
age of consent, legal age, minority, nonage, drinking age, voting age.
| age (noun) | majority (noun) |
|---|---|
| how long something has existed | the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part |
| a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises | (elections) more than half of the votes |
| a late time of life | the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs |
| an era of history having some distinctive feature | |
| a prolonged period of time |
| age (verb) | majority (verb) |
|---|---|
| grow old or older | |
| begin to seem older; get older | |
| make older |
Words related to "age"
- Age of Enlightenment
- Age of Reason
- Baroque
- Baroque era
- Baroque period
- Dark Ages
- Depression
- Elizabethan age
- Elizabethan era
- Enlightenment
- Great Depression
- Harlem Renaissance
- Industrial Revolution
- Italian Renaissance
- Jazz Age
- Middle Ages
- New Deal
- Reconstruction
- Reconstruction Era
- Reconstruction Period
- Reign of Terror
- Renaissance
- Renascence
- Restoration
- Victorian age
- Victorian era
- aeon
- age
- age of consent
- alter
- antiquity
- autumn years
- blue moon
- bone age
- change
- chronological age
- decrepitude
- develop
- developmental age
- dotage
- dote
- drinking age
- eighties
- eld
- eon
- epoch
- era
- fertilization age
- fetal age
- fossilise
- fossilize
- geezerhood
- gestational age
- get on
- golden age
- grow
- historic period
- history
- immature
- legal age
- life
- life-time
- lifespan
- lifetime
- literary period
- long time
- majority
- maturate
- mature
- mental age
- mid-eighties
- mid-nineties
- mid-seventies
- mid-sixties
- minority
- modify
- month of Sundays
- new
- newness
- nineties
- nonage
- old
- old age
- oldness
- period
- period of time
- property
- reign
- rejuvenate
- second childhood
- senesce
- senility
- seventies
- sixties
- technological revolution
- time of life
- time period
- turn
- turn of the century
- voting age
- year dot
- years
- young
- youngness
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